Christ & the Life of the Believer
“All
the ground of a believers righteousness and salvation, and exemption
from the Law, sin, and the curse, is from the nature, office, and
transaction or work of Christ, and Gods accounting, or imputing.
Christ stood clothed in our nature, betwixt God and man, and in that
with all the sins of believers upon Him, God having laid on Him the
iniquities of us all. In His Office He obeyed, suffered, satisfied,
and offered up Himself, and now sits as a Mediator to perpetuate or
make His sacrifice, obedience, suffering, and righteousness
everlasting; and thus bringing in everlasting righteousness; and God
accounts, reckons or imputes all that is done in our nature, as done
by us, calling things that are not, as if they were; and in His
person, as in our person; and thus He is made sin for us Who
knew no sin, that we might be made the righteousness of God in Him.”
-Gospel report by preacher John Saltmarsh, 1649 A.D.
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